Like, did your actual center of gravity or muscular attributes change over time to make you pass or fail where previously you had the other outcome of one of these alleged “men can’t do this but women can” type challenges?
That’s so interesting, thanks for the learning!
This is exactly like the time I found out vaginal lubrication from arousal was a hormonally dictated thing. Even though I have an endocrine disorder and very personally understand how much hormones do around the body (or should be doing, but sometimes don’t…), it blew my tiny little mind. I just sort of assumed the surgery wouldn’t be able to address that functionality.
Hormones are hugely underestimated, they wield a lot of power over us. The fact we can reliably tinker with some of them with science is a little awe-inspiring and slightly terrifying.
The anterior pelvic tilt thing is wild, I never would have expected that change. Is it a documented change for transmascs too?
“documented” is tricky because very little of this is super well documented, seeing as trans people are a super small and, even proportionately to their small numbers, understudied minority in medical science. this is largely a community communication effort and a lot of the knowledge is not done through academic study. that being said, it does seem like it’s talked about a lot less in the transmasc community, so possibly? on paper, the mechanism of action (tendon/ligament/muscle changes) goes both ways, but I haven’t really seen many transmascs talk about it, so I don’t know for sure!
Yeah that totally makes sense. I’d be keen to find out if how much is biomechanical and how much gender role social expectations influence it, but like most things I’m interested in I will have to wait another 30 years for a peer reviewed study.
Oh well, still cool and interesting to think about! I appreciate trans people’s insights in comparative biology, even if I wish they didn’t have to experience dysphoria to educate the rest of us.
